Internet Readalong
Jan. 20th, 2011 05:17 pm* Al Jazeera has a spotlight on the revolution in Tunisia with breaking news, video, opinion, etc. Mother Jones has a basic (and several days out of date) primer here.
* Christopher Nolan is making another Batman movie, which is enough to piss me off all on it's own (no movie's made me angry like The Dark Knight made me angry). The antagonists this time around are Bane and Catwoman, to be played by Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway. Which is interesting, because Bane's latino. Selina is/probably is as well, though I'm having trouble tracking down canon verification. I'm not super familiar with the Gotham crowd, though, so I'll leave this to others.
Back to the point, which is: whitewashing. It's not a surprise, considering the previous films have been rife with whitewashing (Ra's al Ghul), erasure (Renee Montoya ((link seems to be missing it's scans)) and Barbara Gordon), and fridging (Rachel Dawes) but still. Fuck you, Nolan.
* There's another round of discussion re: book piracy, authors and copyright going on.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
troisroyaumes has an excellent collection of posts up, I'd like to point to colorblue's this is not a post about yoga in particular.
* On a related note: 'Underground' Artist Steve Lieber Wins Over 4chan. Rather than berating the thread for more or less pirating he and Parker's creator-owned work in a public forum, Lieber instead answered questions about his career and pointed out that those who liked what they read could buy the book in print. The response was almost resoundingly positive with a lot of readers expressing interest in paying for the comic or simply being excited to have access to a creator willing to share insights about the industry. Though I doubt things would have gone as well if Lieber wasn't a (presumably) straight white dude.
* The European Southern Observatory issued a challenge last October to amateur astronomers everywhere: Find the best photos that ESO's professional image processors overlooked. The winning shot of the Orion Nebula is stunning (the others are pretty nice too) and I immediatly made it my new desktop background at work.
Then I thought about it a while and decided it needed a TARDIS. ( So that happened too. )
* On BoingBoing: video of the last known living Thylacine, filmed in 1933. Disturbing (to me, YMMV) in a 'last of a species/we wiped them out of existance' kind of way.
* Making the rounds again: Let's Bury the Not-a-Word Myth. Also Bookshelf Porn, which I never get tired of.
* Via Colorlines: Visibility Project, a portraiture series devoted to showcasing a vast array of queer API folks.
* Christopher Nolan is making another Batman movie, which is enough to piss me off all on it's own (no movie's made me angry like The Dark Knight made me angry). The antagonists this time around are Bane and Catwoman, to be played by Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway. Which is interesting, because Bane's latino. Selina is/probably is as well, though I'm having trouble tracking down canon verification. I'm not super familiar with the Gotham crowd, though, so I'll leave this to others.
Back to the point, which is: whitewashing. It's not a surprise, considering the previous films have been rife with whitewashing (Ra's al Ghul), erasure (Renee Montoya ((link seems to be missing it's scans)) and Barbara Gordon), and fridging (Rachel Dawes) but still. Fuck you, Nolan.
* There's another round of discussion re: book piracy, authors and copyright going on.
troisroyaumes has an excellent collection of posts up, I'd like to point to colorblue's this is not a post about yoga in particular.* On a related note: 'Underground' Artist Steve Lieber Wins Over 4chan. Rather than berating the thread for more or less pirating he and Parker's creator-owned work in a public forum, Lieber instead answered questions about his career and pointed out that those who liked what they read could buy the book in print. The response was almost resoundingly positive with a lot of readers expressing interest in paying for the comic or simply being excited to have access to a creator willing to share insights about the industry. Though I doubt things would have gone as well if Lieber wasn't a (presumably) straight white dude.
* The European Southern Observatory issued a challenge last October to amateur astronomers everywhere: Find the best photos that ESO's professional image processors overlooked. The winning shot of the Orion Nebula is stunning (the others are pretty nice too) and I immediatly made it my new desktop background at work.
Then I thought about it a while and decided it needed a TARDIS. ( So that happened too. )
* On BoingBoing: video of the last known living Thylacine, filmed in 1933. Disturbing (to me, YMMV) in a 'last of a species/we wiped them out of existance' kind of way.
* Making the rounds again: Let's Bury the Not-a-Word Myth. Also Bookshelf Porn, which I never get tired of.
* Via Colorlines: Visibility Project, a portraiture series devoted to showcasing a vast array of queer API folks.
